General lack of phylogeographic structure in two sympatric, forest obligate squirrels (Sciurus niger and S. carolinensis)

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Moncrief, Nancy D., Lack, Justin B., Maldonado, Jesús E., Bryant, Katherine L., Edwards, Cody W., Van Den Bussche, Ronald A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2012
• Subjects: Feature Articles; Kya; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/93/5/1247; https://doi.org/10.1644/11-MAMM-A-383.1

We examined intraspecific relationships in the eastern fox squirrel ( Sciurus niger ) and the eastern gray squirrel ( S. carolinensis ) using sequence variation in a portion of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome- b gene and part of the D-loop in the control region. These closely related species are co...